The Human Rights Campaign has published internal NOM communiques that were unsealed today as part of Maine's investigation into NOM's finances. Most repulsive is the blatant and grotesque manner in which NOM plots to set minority communities against each other.

From a "confidential" report to NOM's board of directors:

“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots…”

"The Latino vote in America is a key swing vote, and will be so even more so in the future, both because of demographic growth and inherent uncertainty: Will the process of assimilation to the dominant Anglo culture lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family values? We must interrupt this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity - a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation."

The fallout for this disgusting revelation should be loud and long-lasting. Will NOM's allies distance themselves? Will the Catholic Church denounce such astounding race-baiting?